§ 13.08.540. Emergency work by city—Notice—Liability for cost of work.

Whenever, in the opinion of the Director of Public Works, the public health, safety, or welfare shall require that repairs or protective measures to a building sewer be made or instituted immediately, he or she is authorized to proceed with all necessary work to abate the condition and may enter upon private property for such purposes. He or she may erect and maintain all necessary barricades, warning lights, and other protective devices upon public or private property. He or she shall give the owner of the premises upon which the repairs are to be made, or the protective measures to be instituted, such notice, if any, and by such means as the circumstances shall permit.

The owner of the property upon which the condition exists and the person creating such condition shall be jointly and severally liable to the city for all costs incurred by it in abating said emergency condition and erecting and maintaining said protective devices.

The cost of abating such condition shall constitute a special assessment against that real property on which said condition was abated. The special assessment shall be made in the manner set forth in Section 13.08.280 using the notice of lien as found in Section 13.08.330.

(Prior code § 6-6.360)